Events for October 4, 2024
First Friday is celebrated on the first Friday of each month throughout Downtown Raleigh to showcase the best of our city's creative community. Thousands venture downtown to visit art galleries & studios open late to host exhibits, artist talks, and creative activities. Retailers and restaurants also get in on the fun with live music, vendor markets, specials/discounts, and more. There's something for everyone each First Friday.
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All art is cathartic, but this show explores the profound emotional release and healing that art can provide to us all.
Creating art is an amazing way to understand the thoughts and emotions that swirl around inside us, releasing them into the world and helping other people to connect with their own experiences. For the months of September and October, CoLab is exploring the profound emotional release and healing that art can provide with the exhibition "CathARTic". While we believe all art is cathartic, this show features work that expresses intense emotion. Moments of joy and sublime contentment, sorrow and frustration, or intangible feelings that needed to surface. This is a two month show, all work will be hanging from September through the end of October.
CoLab is also helping to raise money for NAMI in this show! NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a great organization that helps advocate on behalf of those affected by mental illness. Their mission is to provide support, education, and public awareness so that all individuals, families, and communities facing mental health challenges can live better lives. CoLab thinks this is a great idea, so we're giving 100% of our sketch wall donations to NAMI. We're also offering the chance for artists to help NAMI too by opting to donate 50% of their art sales in this show to NAMI. Each piece that opts for NAMI donations will be tagged with a little sign that reads "50% of the sale price of this piece goes to NAMI".
After being inspired by the show, we’ll have a collaborative painting set up for you to experience your own cathARTic moment. Come paint with us!
The Carter Building will be hopping Friday! While you're here, visit our awesome neighbors throughout the building!
Your new 'go to' when it comes to First Friday in Downtown Raleigh! This has become a highly anticipated event, and we love hosting it!
Come have some dinner, enjoy a vast rotating list of local brews, listen to music and win prizes... all at the same time.
Come one, come all!
Designed For Joy provides women in crisis with stability through immediate employment and support, removing the stigma of vulnerability. To date, we have hired over 130 women with $500,000 in living wages earned.
Shop our brand of leather handbags, jewelry, and home decor and provide living wage work for the next 100 women in Raleigh.
Tour our 5,000 square foot studio and see where and how our products are created.
Explore volunteer opportunities.
Submissions are OPEN for our yearly tradition, Dark Arts, for our October show! While Dark Arts began as a show for the eerie, surreal, and creepy, its meaning has evolved towards the literal meaning of "Dark Art"- dark room photography and how light can play a role within art and design.
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Do you take film photography/videos? Submit them to Dark Arts?
ARTISTS/DESIGNERS: Do you have work that plays with the concept of light AND/OR has to do with the surreal/eerie? We would love to see it!!
Submissions are due by Tuesday, October 1st. The art drop-off day will be that Thursday, October 3rd.
Dark Arts will be Friday, October 4th, from 6-11 PM at our downtown gallery space, 133 Fayetteville St!
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Free outdoor movie and market! Bring a blanket or chair to relax on the lawn, enjoy the music, watch the movie, grab a bite from the food trucks and explore the market!
This monthly event features:
🔹Food trucks & local vendors: 5:00-9:00 pm
🔹Live music by local artist: 6 pm
🔹Free movie on the lawn: 7:00 pm, Twilight (2008)
Note: The lawn fills up quickly for the movie. Arrive early to secure your spot!
This event is presented by Get 2 Know Raleigh, the Raleigh Parks team at Moore Square
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Come browse the vintage collection & nostalgia of the 60s-90s at origami styling! Enjoy a beverage or treat while you shop. We have men’s, women’s & kids apparel, plus furniture and housewares. Find something for yourself or a unique gift for someone else!
Susan Delene, published, international award-winning boudoir photographer, is opening up her private studio for First Friday! Explore the downtown space located on the 5th floor of the historic Raleigh Building, on the corner of Hargett and Fayetteville, above Raleigh Raw.
Susan’s mission is to take away the stigma of boudoir by boldly celebrating the many facets of women. At the studio you’re encouraged to tap into whatever side of yourself you want to unleash, explore, and celebrate.
You’re invited to celebrate women that have been photographed and boldly given consent to share their images.
Come meet Susan Delene, enjoy the selfie-station and enter to win a free session. There will be complimentary refreshments and any tips will go to the Susan G Komen breast cancer foundation.
Hope to see you there!
A New Era at Raleigh Raw: Join Us for Friday Night Cocktails!
Get ready for an exciting new chapter for Umbrella at Raleigh Raw! We're thrilled to announce that we'll be taking over the space every Friday evening, transforming it into a vibrant non-alcoholic cocktail bar.
A New Experience Awaits
Starting September 6th, Umbrella x Raleigh Raw will offer a unique and immersive cocktail experience. Enjoy our innovative and expertly crafted non-alcoholic cocktails, designed to delight your taste buds and elevate your evenings.
What to Expect:
Table Service: Experience the luxury of table service as our friendly bartenders cater to your every need.
Conscious Cocktails: Indulge in our carefully crafted non-alcoholic cocktails, made with the same passion and precision as their alcoholic counterparts.
A Vibrant Atmosphere: Raleigh Raw's inviting ambiance, coupled with Umbrella's signature style, will create an unforgettable experience.
First Friday Launch
Join us for the residency launch on September 6th, as part of Raleigh's First Friday initiative. Enjoy extended hours and explore the vibrant downtown scene while savoring our delicious cocktails.
We're excited to bring this new venture to life and look forward to welcoming you to Umbrella x Raleigh Raw!
Introducing Woven Strangers! Mark your calendars for FIRST FRIDAY at the Transfer Co Food Hall Loft! Jean Gray Mohs, a versatile mixed media artist currently based at Artspace in Raleigh, NC, channels her creativity primarily through painting and sculpture, manifesting in organic wooden objects. Mohs employs a juxtaposition of sturdy wood and fragile waxed thread to explore the emotional and physical spaces of vulnerability and resiliency. Her artistic lens focuses on the subtle yet powerful forces at work within our bodies, often unnoticed until disrupted. Over her career, she has presented her work in 26 solo shows, participated in 91 group exhibitions, and contributed to 24 museum and university exhibitions.